This presentation examines six songs on Michael Bloomfield's From His Head To His Heart To His Hands, a box set anthology of Mike's
music released by Columbia Records and Sony Music Entertainment in 2014.

Each of the songs contains one or more edits. With each edit, a musical passage or section is removed from the recording
and discarded.

There are twenty such edits altogether in the six songs.

As the cuts occur, the continuity of the music is destroyed. Incongruous musical juxtapositions — including musical lines that
were not played (and would not have been played) — are manufactured and presented in place of what was actually performed
and previously released.

Those who care about and respect Michael Bloomfield and his memory deserve to know how his music has been
changed on the box — and to hear that music as Mike played it and intended it to be heard.

This presentation is for them.

The presentation includes:

Soundclips of all twenty deleted musical passages or sections,

And for each of the six songs —

A waveform diagram,

Before-and-after contextual soundclips, and

The original recording of the entire song, without edits.

The diagrams depict both original and box-edit versions of the songs, and show the dimensions and locations of
all twenty cuts.

Full versions of the songs are also on the albums credited below, all of which are available on CD.

Editing analysis and webpage production by Mark Naftalin
Diagrams by Beth Northrop from Samplitude waveform files

The box edit of the first guitar solo with
the first twelve bars cut out; with four bars cut
out eighteen bars into the solo (counting from
the new, manufactured, beginning); and with
another four bars cut out at the peak of the
solo, right before it ends
(1:39)

After the guitar solo, before the vocal

ORIGINAL

The passage in the original between the end
of the guitar solo and the point where Nick
comes back in singing
(:40)

BOX EDIT

The box edit of the same section with
fourteen bars cut out, including the ensemble
riff that sets up the vocal
(:23)

The box edit of the second vocal section,
with the first ten bars of Nick's vocal ad lib
cut out
(:46)

Closing guitar solo

ORIGINAL

The original closing guitar solo: twelve
bars of a distinctive musical motif — similar
to what was played at the beginning of the
first guitar solo — leading to the ending
which builds on the ensemble riff
(:56)

BOX EDIT

The box edit of the closing guitar solo
with the first eight bars of the twelve-bar
motific passage cut out
(:39)